Other DUers have noted that the Camus book is often used in high school lit classes (one of the required texts in my French course was one of Sartre's existentialist novels, though of course Bush would probably not take that particular elective!).

Maybe he is using Intelligent Design to try to get out of dissecting the fetal pig in Biology!

To tee, or not to tee--that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the fairway to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous bad liesOr to take arms against a sea of bogiesAnd by opposing end them. To lie, to slice--No more--and by a mulligan to say we endThe handicap, and the thousand natural hazardsThat par is heir to. 'Tis a consummationDevoutly to be wished. To divot, to hook--To whiffle--perchance to cheat: ay, there's the rub,For in that nineteenth hole of death what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off this mortal scorecard,Must give us pause. Or a new caddy.

... I wish he'd read "Barrier Island" -- which exposes sordid development deals along the Gulf Coast (mentioning many areas which later got flattened by Katrina). MacDonald saw what was coming, all right.

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